Dinosaur Valley State Park

We took the kids to see the dinosaur footprints over the first weekend in October. There were hundreds and hundreds of prints in the just the one part of the Paluxy River that we visitedBryan and I were amazed by the printsYou could actually touch them and feel their claw marks

Touching something that is 60 million years old is pretty mind blowing  . . . if you’re an adult. The kids honestly didn’t seem that impressed. There was much discussion among the adults about the phenomenon of kids being unimpressed by impressive things and we postulated that when you’re little you’re constantly encountering new things so you expect to discover something new. How is a child to know that something 60 million years old is remarkable? 

 We were really trying to get a big reaction out of them and they humored us a little but they were much more interested in running through the river and hunting for sticks to poke each otherFreya was quite a handful. She saw the other kids running around in the water and became unsatisfied with staying in the back pack.  he rocks were so slippery we were having enough trouble keeping Alice upright without having to worry about Freya. So we kept placing her on the rocky bank and letting her run to water at which point we would intercept her and move her back to the far edge of the bank. We did this over and over and over again

I’m so glad we went and I would love to return for another visit if we get the chance. It was wonderful to see the kids enjoying their romp in nature.  I feel so lucky that we were able to find a weekend when the water was low enough to see the tracks but high enough (and warm enough!) for play.